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2004-07-30 04:13:50 UTC
"His sense of humor was strange and full of irony," Teller
said Tuesday. "In November, he said to me, 'I read the
obituaries every day and I'm never there.'"
Father of magician Teller dies at age 91
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Joseph Teller, the father of magician Teller
and subject of a 2000 memoir by the silent half of the
comedy-magic act Penn & Teller, has died.
Joseph Teller died of cardiac failure Friday at an
assisted-living facility in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas.
He was 91.
Teller, who legally dropped his first name, said he loved
his father's wry sense of humor.
"His sense of humor was strange and full of irony," Teller
said Tuesday. "In November, he said to me, 'I read the
obituaries every day and I'm never there.'"
Joseph Teller and his wife, Irene, were the subject of a
2000 memoir by Teller, their only child. The title is a
quote from Joseph Teller about their basement clutter: "When
I'm Dead This All Will Be Yours!"
The book chronicles Joseph Teller's travels as a teenage
hobo, the cartoons he drew on the road and in 1930s- and
1940s-era Philadelphia, and his life with Irene.
Joseph Teller was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and later moved to
Philadelphia. He studied art at what is now the Fleischer
Art Memorial, where he met Irene B. Derrickson. The couple
married in 1939.
He worked as a commercial artist, and continued painting in
a studio in the couple's Center City brownstone. The
Rosenfeld Gallery hosted a show of Joseph Teller's paintings
when he was 88.
The couple moved to Nevada a year ago to be near Teller.
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said Tuesday. "In November, he said to me, 'I read the
obituaries every day and I'm never there.'"
Father of magician Teller dies at age 91
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Joseph Teller, the father of magician Teller
and subject of a 2000 memoir by the silent half of the
comedy-magic act Penn & Teller, has died.
Joseph Teller died of cardiac failure Friday at an
assisted-living facility in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas.
He was 91.
Teller, who legally dropped his first name, said he loved
his father's wry sense of humor.
"His sense of humor was strange and full of irony," Teller
said Tuesday. "In November, he said to me, 'I read the
obituaries every day and I'm never there.'"
Joseph Teller and his wife, Irene, were the subject of a
2000 memoir by Teller, their only child. The title is a
quote from Joseph Teller about their basement clutter: "When
I'm Dead This All Will Be Yours!"
The book chronicles Joseph Teller's travels as a teenage
hobo, the cartoons he drew on the road and in 1930s- and
1940s-era Philadelphia, and his life with Irene.
Joseph Teller was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and later moved to
Philadelphia. He studied art at what is now the Fleischer
Art Memorial, where he met Irene B. Derrickson. The couple
married in 1939.
He worked as a commercial artist, and continued painting in
a studio in the couple's Center City brownstone. The
Rosenfeld Gallery hosted a show of Joseph Teller's paintings
when he was 88.
The couple moved to Nevada a year ago to be near Teller.
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